Oppedisano in Paris

At the invitation of the EHESS, Fabrizio Oppedisano (SNS Pisa) is to give four lectures in Paris, in October and November, on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle-Ages. Two bear on fifth-century Gaul: ‘L’empereur Majorien à Lyon: la vision “poétique”…

Szada on Nicene-Homoian Relations

Marta Szada’s book Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity (Cambridge, 2024) contains a chapter on ‘The Religious Controversies in Gaul and Hispania before the Goths’ (pp. 169-87). This chapter analyses how the re-emergence of Homoianism among…

Reception of Apuleius in Fifth-Century Gaul

The University of Bari is hiring a post-doctoral researcher for the project ‘Tradition and reception of Apuleius’ works in fifth-century Gaul’, with particular attention to Sidonius. Advertisement here. Applications before 23 March 2024. ‘During the research period, the postdoctoral fellow…

Western Empire in 5th Century

Timo Stickler and Umberto Roberto edited a new volume on the history of the Western Roman Empire from 395-476: Das Weströmische Reich und seine Erforschung. Neue Perspektiven, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2023. Contents here. Contributors include Rene Pfeilschifter (the continuity of the…

The Fifth Century: Age of Transformation

Edited by Jan Willem Drijvers and Noel Lenski, The Fifth Century: Age of Transformation. Proceedings of the 12th  Biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference, has come out (catalogue Bari: Edipuglia). The fifth century CE represents a turning point in…